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/laɪˈsiːəm/ · noun
(historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts..
In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.
At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done.
We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything.
Use lyceum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lyceum means (historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts..
Common synonyms include gymnasium, lycee, middle school, secondary school.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.
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